by Marilene Phipps | Apr 28, 2017 | Poetry
Published by Carcanet Press Inc. England New Caribbean Poetry, Anthology, 2007 May You Live May you live long, long, to a blossomed, handsome, patriarchal age, the incandescence of your eyes illuminating fields you traverse. May your love, irretrievably spent, gather...
by Marilene Phipps | Apr 28, 2017 | Poetry
My Child Curl up in a dream, my child, so I may bless you thus. The heart is a bird to whom large, large wings were given. Do not separate yourself from the gesture that is bold— mushrooms sprout in round-headed crowds, stars are...
by Marilene Phipps | Apr 28, 2017 | Prose
Marie-Ange’s Ginen from The Company of Heaven: Stories from Haiti My name is Marie-Ange Saint-Jacques and I got on that boat November third with my heart open and my eyes closed. My mother, Venante Saint-Jacques, also got on the boat. She too did this with an...
by Marilene Phipps | Apr 28, 2017 | Prose
The Chapel from The Company of Heaven: Stories from Haiti. I am a chapel. A simple white pentagon of roughcast cement blocks aired through two wooden doors and cedar shutters. The past haunts and decorates me. The present crosses me from one door to the other like...
